Most striking is the Cinque Stelle, or 5-Star, movement, organised by satirist and comedian Beppe Grillo.
Some were simply potty, like the Cinque, which aimed to consist of the world's five brightest people.
At 6pm a voice chirps over the tannoy - "Tra cinque minuti, babydance, " and 10-year-old Anna darts off.
Guarding the only secure landing point on the Cinque Terre coast, Vernazza is the quaintest of the five villages.
The council will now use the emblem of the Confederation of the Cinque Ports, with the addition of the town's motto.
The Cinque Ports are towns in Kent and Sussex given royal status in the 13th Century for defending the English coastline.
Rooted in antiquity, Cinque Terre's five towns date from the early medieval period and barely anything about these five crazily constructed Ligurian villages has changed in over three centuries.
Diciassette virgola cinque is 17.5, while settecentocinquanta is 750.
Buildings aside, Cinque Terre's most unique historical feature is the steeply terraced cliffs bisected by a complicated system of fields and gardens that has been shaped over the course of nearly two millennia.
In a blog post Thursday, Sun's data center architect, Brian Cinque, wrote that the company plans to cut the size of its internal data centers in half by 2013, and eliminate them altogether by 2015.
This 530-mile rail trip sets out from the waterworld of Venice, journeys across northern Italy to the rugged Cinque Terre region, continues to Tuscany for the treasures of Florence and Cortona, then heads south to the Eternal City, Rome.
The most accessible village by car, and the only Cinque Terre settlement to sport a tourist beach, is Monterosso, which is the furthest west and least quintessential of the quintet (it was briefly ditched from the group in the 1940s).
In a blog post Thursday, Sun's (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) data center architect, Brian Cinque, wrote that the company plans to cut the size of its internal data centers in half by 2013, and eliminate them altogether by 2015.
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